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FTP Using Shell script

Damu — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:15:46 GMT

Hi all

I wants to write a Shell script which can be connected to a remote ftp server with a user name (not anonymous).

Can any one help me how to write the script for entering a user name and password for the ftp server

cheers

Re: FTP Using Shell script

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:20:03 GMT

Hi Damu,

Check this thread for FTP Script,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=989518
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=811436

-Arun

Re: FTP Using Shell script

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:28:50 GMT

Doing FTP transfers in the shell is very tedious if you do it right because error checking is tough to do. It's much easier to use Perl's Net::FTP module. The attached script will do everything for you and all you need is a little shell scripting ability.

ftpget.pl -h remotehost -l username -p topsecret -d /var/tmp -A myfile1 myfile2
STAT=${?}

if [[ ${STAT} -eq 0 ]]
then
echo "OK"
else
echo "FTP failed; status ${STAT}" >&2
fi

This will login to host "remotehost" as user "username", password "topsecret", cd to /var/tmp, enter ASCII mode (-A); and finally get myfile1 and myfile2. If it exits with a zero status then all is well.
If you need to do a put search for "ftpput.pl".

Invoke as ftpget.pl -u for full usage.

Re: FTP Using Shell script

Jeong-Hwan Kim_1 — Thu, 11 May 2006 01:34:41 GMT

you can simply do the following on you log-in shell.

#/usr/bin/ksh
################################3
ftp -n xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx << EOF
user anonymous xxx@yyy.com
bi
cd ${target_dir}
put ${source} ${target}
bye
EOF

Good Luck ~~

Re: FTP Using Shell script

Antonio Cardoso_1 — Thu, 11 May 2006 02:06:22 GMT

Hi,

here is a script I use to send one or more files to a remote ftp server.

syntax is:
sendftp

[-p ] file1 file2...

user and pw are given as parameters of script.
path parameter is optional (remote user's home dir will be used as default)

hope this helps.
antonio.

Re: FTP Using Shell script

Damu — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:43:00 GMT

I done it by simple script by collecting the all details from the replays